t down at it together; but now all sense of incongruity, all memory of

use, and with very much the air of a chai

. 'And Dyvis, 'ere, who thought he had got up so bloomin' early in the mornin'!

ged to screw out

d he to Herrick, 'but this time I g

nly shook

umptious lark if it 'ad 'appened to somebody else! And wot ar

ne thing certain: it's no use carting this old gl

his shipment! He'll get the news by the mail brigantine; a

crew. If you're going to lose a ship, I would ask no better myself than a Kanaka crew.

her, you byby

; they want to lose her ON HER COURSE, you skeericks! You seem to th

stward. I had it of Uncle Ned. It seems these two unhappy devils, Wiseman and Wis

n looked o

accursed stuff, till sickness took them. As they sickened and the fever rose, they drank the more. They lay here howling and gro

the captain, looking up. '

' said Huish. 'Wot are Wiseman

ys the captain. 'We're

inheritance,'

h what the cargo would have been of course, at least not money down. But I'll tell you what it appear

. 'Give a fellow time

r right enough; and I'll make it my private business to see that we get paid. What were W. and W. to get? That's more'n I can tell. But W. and W. went into this business themselves, they were on the crook.

'Old 'ard! There's your style for the money!

rrick. 'I have to ask you to e

ind me turn-to all right in future; and as for the wine, which I grant we stole from you, I'll take stock and see you paid for it. That's good enough, I believe. But what I want to point out to you is this. The old game was a risky game. The new game's as safe as running a Vienna Bakery. We just put this Farallone before the wind, and

rick; and then broke out;

eastways, I'll go my bottom cent, it ain't Peru. It was always a doubt if we could sell the schooner; I never rightly hoped to, and now I'm sure she ain't worth a hill of beans; what's wrong with her, I don't know; I only know it's something, or she wouldn't be here with this tru

radition there,

e want to be extrade

oor. My idea is that Samoa would be found an eligible business centre. It's dead before the wind; the State

. 'It will take us fo

air wind!' sa

out the log, e

mometer off of last year's trip.' 'Never saw such a voyage,' says you to the consul. 'Thought I was going to run short . . .' He stopped in mid career.

rest was done, to the best of my little ability,' said Herri

oked at

thing was to clear right out of Papeete before the consul coul

and disappeared with

screw loose,'

leam of animosity, 'it is still your wa

cky?' said Huish. 'Stand away from that

, and strolled into the waist

in reappeared; he did not look at Herri

zing on him instead with manifest anxiety, he yet more heavily resumed. 'Well, it won't fight. We can't do it; that's th

?' asked Hui

wn up square to one thing: I seem to have figured too fine upon the flour. But the rest - my land! I'll never understand it! There's been more waste on this twopenny ship than what there is to an Atlantic Liner.' He stole a glance at his companions; nothing

yours and you know it. If you turn a savage loose in your store-room

have taken this defiance; but he

you? Oh, it "gets you", do it? Oh, I dessay! W'y, we en't you 'owling for fresh tins every blessed day? 'Ow often 'ave I 'eard you send the 'ole bloomin' dinner off and tell the man to chuck it in the swill tub? And breakfast? Oh,

d if he heard, but the voice of the clerk rang about the c

o, Huish,' s

ut as for John Dyvis, let him look out! He struck me the first night aboard, and I never took a blow yet

llow me. I hope I shall die very soon; but I have not the least objection to killing you before I go. I sh

der. As for Herrick, the successive agitations and disappointments of the day had left him wholly reckless; he was conscious of a pleasant glow, an agreeable excitement; his head seemed empty, his eyeballs burne

xt would bring the matter to an issue there and then; all knew it to be so and hun

uption, welcome as

a voice on deck. '

ng to his feet. 'What's this

ed corpse, the three ran forth out of the house

sed, not even the practisect eye of Captain Davis could descry the smallest interruption. A few filmy clouds were slowly melting overhead; and about the schooner, as around the only po

f there's any boy playing funny dog

horizon, where a greenish, filmy iridescence could

looked at the Kanaka. 'Call that land?

e that, four five hours befo' we come up. Capena he say su

e WHAT?' a

ah,' said

lagoon. Well, you know, it is just possible, though it's s

tion of the schooner well to windward of the ar

e for yourselv

's something in it. I'll tell you one thing too, captain; th

is. 'I'll try it all ways. An island wo

th Findlay; and he turned to the place and began to run over the text

said, in lat. 12 degrees 49' 10" S. long. 113degrees 6' W. In addition to the position above given Commander Matthews, H.M.S. Scorpion, states that an island exists in

!' sai

he conditional mo

vis, 'only there it is! That's our p

remain unknown,"' read Herrick, ove

ppose it don't mean anything. Suppose it's just an island; I guess we could fill up with fish, and cocoanuts, and native stu

five,' sa

t breeze had you that time you

n knots,' wa

it is an island, we don't want to be butting our head against it in the dark; and if it

began already to pale in lustre and diminish in size, as the stain of brea